Genesis 41:35

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it.

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  • Gen 41:48-49 : 48 And Joseph got together all the food of those seven years, and made a store of food in the towns: the produce of the fields round every town was stored up in the town. 49 So he got together a store of grain like the sand of the sea; so great a store that after a time he gave up measuring it, for it might not be measured.
  • Gen 41:56 : 56 And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of Egypt.
  • Gen 45:6-7 : 6 For these two years have been years of need, and there are still five more years to come in which there will be no ploughing or cutting of grain. 7 God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.
  • Exod 4:13 : 13 And he said, O Lord, send, if you will, by the hand of anyone whom it seems good to you to send.

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  • Gen 41:36-37
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    36 And let that food be kept in store for the land till the seven bad years which are to come in Egypt; so that the land may not come to destruction through need of food.

    37 And this seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his servants.

  • Gen 41:47-49
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    47 Now in the seven good years the earth gave fruit in masses.

    48 And Joseph got together all the food of those seven years, and made a store of food in the towns: the produce of the fields round every town was stored up in the town.

    49 So he got together a store of grain like the sand of the sea; so great a store that after a time he gave up measuring it, for it might not be measured.

  • Gen 41:33-34
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    33 And now let Pharaoh make search for a man of wisdom and good sense, and put him in authority over the land of Egypt.

    34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him put overseers over the land of Egypt to put in store a fifth part of the produce of the land in the good years.

  • Gen 41:27-31
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    27 The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food.

    28 As I said to Pharaoh before, God has made clear to him what he is about to do.

    29 Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt;

    30 And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years;

    31 And men will have no memory of the good time because of the need which will come after, for it will be very bitter.

  • Gen 41:54-57
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    54 Then came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph had said: and in every other land they were short of food; but in the land of Egypt there was bread.

    55 And when all the land of Egypt was in need of food, the people came crying to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to the people, Go to Joseph, and whatever he says to you, do it.

    56 And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of Egypt.

    57 And all lands sent to Egypt, to Joseph, to get grain, for the need was great over all the earth.

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    14 And all the money in Egypt and in the land of Canaan which had been given for grain, came into the hands of Joseph: and he put it in Pharaoh's house.

  • Gen 47:24
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    24 And when the grain is cut, you are to give a fifth part to Pharaoh, and four parts will be yours for seed and food, and for your families and your little ones.

  • Gen 45:11
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    11 And there I will take care of you, so that you and your family may not be in need, for there are still five bad years to come.

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    6 For these two years have been years of need, and there are still five more years to come in which there will be no ploughing or cutting of grain.

  • Gen 42:2
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    2 And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.